CHILDREN'S SABBATH LESSONS
LESSON 1
IN THE BEGINNING
In your Bible, you will read in Genesis 1 that Yahweh made the
sky and the land and everything else.
The Earth was dark and cold and there wasn't anything living on
it. There were no animals, birds, fish, trees or flowers. There were no boys or
girls and there would not have been anything for them to eat if they had been
here then.
Then finally Yahweh said, "Let there be light!" and there was
light. Yahweh began to change the earth so that things could grow.
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Can you just imagine what the earth was like
with nothing on it? No trees, no critters, no people, just empty? |
Just a little, bitty
earth |
Yahweh made part of the earth light and he left the
other part dark. He called the light part "day" and he called the dark part
"night." When Yahweh made the light and the dark that was the first day.
On the second day Yahweh made clean, white clouds high in the
sky.
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ACTIVITY
Take a plain white sheet of paper. Draw some pretty white
clouds in the sky.
Keep your paper--we're going to add to it! |
 On the third day Yahweh made the water come together in certain
places so that there was dry land. Trees, bushes, flowers and grass began to
grow. Some plants made fruit and some plants made vegetables.
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CONTINUING ACTIVITY
Take your picture of the clouds and add some land (that
might be an island), and some water for the ocean. Then add some
trees, flowers and bushes. Make it nice and colorful! |
On the fourth day, Yahweh made lights in the sky
to separate the day from the night.
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CONTINUING ACTIVITY
Now, take your picture and add the Sun to make it a
pretty daytime picture. |
On the fifth day Yahweh made the water fill up
with all kinds of fish. There were giant ones like the big whales, and tiny ones
that you could hardly see. Yahweh also made the birds and all the other animals.
Can you identify all these critters
that Yahweh made?
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Yahweh made the earth and many other kinds of
fish, birds, and animals in just five days. There wasn't anyone to take care of
those things so Yahweh had to do one more thing. Do you know what that was?
Yahweh made man on the sixth day!
 Yahweh made
the man from the dust of the ground. After Yahweh made him, He knew that the man
would be lonely so He made him go to sleep and took one of his ribs and used it
to make a woman. The man was called Adam and the woman was called Eve.
Yahweh had been working for six days to make the
earth and everything in it. On the seventh day, Yahweh rested. He didn't do any
more work. That is what we do on the seventh day. It is the Sabbath. Did you
know the Hebrew word for seven is "sabbath"?
Adam and Eve spent their Sabbath with Yahweh.
They talked with Him and learned from Him. We also talk with Him when we pray
and we, too, learn from Him each Sabbath.
Memory Verse
In the beginning, Elohim created
the heaven and the earth,
Genesis 1:1
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HalleluYAH!
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